Beautiful Code

Book Description

How do the experts solve difficult problems in software
development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer
scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual,
carefully designed solutions to high-profile projects. You will be
able to look over the shoulder of major coding and design experts
to see problems through their eyes.
This is not simply another design patterns book, or another
software engineering treatise on the right and wrong way to do
things. The authors think aloud as they work through their
project's architecture, the tradeoffs made in its construction, and
when it was important to break rules.
This book contains 33 chapters contributed by Brian Kernighan, Karl
Fogel, Jon Bentley, Tim Bray, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Michael
Feathers, Alberto Savoia, Charles Petzold, Douglas Crockford, Henry
S. Warren, Jr., Ashish Gulhati, Lincoln Stein, Jim Kent, Jack
Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek, Adam Kolawa, Greg Kroah-Hartman,
Diomidis Spinellis, Andrew Kuchling, Travis E. Oliphant, Ronald
Mak, Rogerio Atem de Carvalho and Rafael Monnerat, Bryan Cantrill,
Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Simon Peyton Jones, Kent Dybvig,
William Otte and Douglas C. Schmidt, Andrew Patzer, Andreas Zeller,
Yukihiro Matsumoto, Arun Mehta, TV Raman, Laura Wingerd and
Christopher Seiwald, and Brian Hayes.
Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell
their story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty
International.